Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within six months. Out of 88 government schools in the district 31 have no toilets. District officials confessed their lack of knowledge about …
GURGAON: Forget tap water, if you thought packaged drinking water was safe in the city, think twice. Though only four samples of packaged drinking water were collected by the food safety department from two units in Gurgaon in the last three years, analysis showed that all were unfit for consumption, …
India's democratic depth was evident this past week as the entire establishment, left and right, came together to congratulate Kailash Satyarthi for his Nobel. All of them, from Narendra Modi on, did so without any qualification. But why should this be unusual? Shouldn't our nation celebrate a rare Nobel? It …
Madhya Pradesh high court on Wednesday expressed concern over state government's apathy in setting up a Special Tiger Protection Force (SPTF) to shield big cats from poachers. Division bench of Jabalpur high court comprising Chief Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice S S Khemkar issued the notice, asking chief secretary, …
Despite all the talk about ploughing back a portion of the fines collected from traffic violators for road safety activities, both the Gurgaon and Delhi traffic police have not spent a penny from the penalty amount for road crash victims. Both the police entities have admitted in a recent RTI …
Panaji: RTI activist Sudip Tamankar has moved the high court of Bombay at Goa challenging the state government's recently-announced mining lease renewal policy. In his writ petition, Tamankar has alleged that the state government is trying to allow mining companies, which were found by the Shah Commission of Inquiry to …
Guwahati: At a time the government's priority is conservation of wetlands across the state, a reply to an RTI application filed by environment activist Rohit Choudhury has revealed a startling fact. The state-level steering committee on wetlands has not met even once, said the state public information officer (SPIO) and …
Though the Rispana river might appear to be a dying stream carrying waste water, the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee has revealed that it is a perennial stream. This was stated in response to information sought under the Right to Information founder-chairperson of Making a Difference by Being the …
Even as the wetlands of the State are facing rapid encroachment and some of them have by this time been eliminated by encroachment and illegal settlement, the State Level Steering Committee on Wetlands has not held any meeting during the past ten years. This was disclosed by the State Public …
Gated Community Worried About Radiation-Emitting Installation That's Cropped Up In Their Vicinity The mushrooming telecommunication towers in the city are setting off alarm bells, literally.Residents living near such radiationemitting installations are wary of the health hazards they pose. Shobha Amethyst, a gated community in Kannamangala village, Hoskote, East Bangalore, is …
NAGPUR: A division bench of justices BR Gavai and VM Deshpande of Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has directed city police chief to act 'as expeditiously as possible' on the complaint filed by a legal practitioner pertaining to nuisances created by blaring loudspeakers atop a temple at Vasant Vihar …
Cancer was responsible for 16% deaths among Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) employees between January 2010 and April 2014, said epidemiologists from the DAE-run Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, on Tuesday. They said the figure was similar to cancer death rates in urban India. The experts said this while repudiating RTI-based …
The industrial units located in the eco-sensitive zone of Kaziranga National Park (KNP) have been operating in clear violation of the legal provisions and the government authorities concerned have also failed to take any actions against these units despite there being written complaints, alleged environment and RTI activist Rohit Choudhury. …
Kolkata: Senior foresters from Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, in a joint meeting held almost after a decade on Wednesday, pledged to work together to allow free passage to the elephants that usually venture out of Jharkhand's Dalma sanctuary every year and move towards Chhattisgarh, Bengal and Odisha using their …
PANAJI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the forest department to produce an authentic map indicating the area of 12.61 hectares of private forest in Xelpem, Mapusa, to resolve a dispute about some allegedly illegal constructions in the area. The bench, comprising judicial member Justice V R Kingaonkar and …
THANE: After deciding to monitor noisy Dahi Handi celebrations, the city police have shifted their attention to loudspeakers at religious places in Thane, Kalyan, Dombivli and Mumbra. According to sources, V V Laxminarayana, the joint commissioner of police (Thane), has instructed police stations within the Thane commissionerate to survey religious …
Driven to desperation, a crowd of over 300 agitated local tribals protested and pelted stones at forest officer's residence when elephants destroyed houses of more than three families at Dharamjaigarh block in Raigarh district late on Saturday. About six people were arrested after the protest. Tribals have been bearing the …
Death Certificates Show Higher Toll, Says NGO Report The city's ill-health graph is a bit skewed, claimed NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday. It used data drawn from BMC's health department to show a huge disparity between the number of deaths the civic body attributes to diseases and the reasons given …
Citing various lapses and irregularities in JNNURM works taken up by the Pune Municipal Corporation, the Nagrik Chetna Manch has demanded that all instructions and guidelines be followed to ensure success of the projects. In letters sent to Union minister of urban development Venkaiah Naidu and the state government, the …
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